Suggest a Weird Movie!

Know a weird movie? Something strange that glued you to the screen with awe, amazement or reverence, while your more mundane minded friends left the room (or theater) in boredom, confusion or disgust? A movie whose omission from a list of the 366 weirdest movies of all time would offend you on a personal level? Something even I haven’t heard of or considered? There are potentially thousands of forgotten films, critically dismissed films, foreign or independent films that never got a proper release, or misplaced oddities hiding out there that may deserve a place at the table. One man can’t be expected to track them all down. Here is the place to mention those treasured curios that no one else seems to have even heard of. Nominate a movie in the suggestion box and I’ll move it up on my review queue, or at the very least, explain why I’m not going to review it.

NOTICE: The “Suggest of Weird Movie!” feature has become a victim of its own success. At the time of this update, we have about 250 reader suggestions (!) in queue. (More than that since I last updated the page)! Since we can only do 1 or maybe 2 reviews a week, be aware there may be a huge delay—currently, possibly over a year!—between the time you make a suggestion and the point at which it’s actually reviewed. I considered shutting down the suggestion box as of 2011, but I decided to let you keep your suggestions coming (if nothing else, it tells us what types of movies readers are interested in seeing reviews of). Just be aware that when you make a suggestion, it may not receive the promptest of attention. The best you can really hope for at this point is to bring something to our attention that we might have overlooked. (Also note that although we prioritize the earliest nominations later suggestions may get reviewed before earlier ones if they receive a re-release on DVD or Blu-ray, or interest us for our own inscrutable reasons).

If you can’t wait for one of our staff to review your movie, why not review it yourself and submit it to us via the contact form? We can’t swear we’ll publish every submission we receive, but we want reader participation and we are fairly liberal.

All serious suggestions will receive a response, as well as all most non-serious ones.

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Here’s the review queue of reader suggestions that have yet to be reviewed, in alphabetical order. You can always see this list ordered according to (very rough) intended order of publication in the weekly “What’s in the Pipeline” column (published on Sundays). Of course, at this point the list is so long that it is likely we will have to leave the task of reviewing the items at the end of the list to our children, but whatever.

Also, at the time of this writing the List will soon be completed, meaning that most of these suggestions will sadly never be reviewed or considered. You may consider them all as reader-suggested honorable mentions.

I didn’t see it in the queue, has Return to Oz (1985) been reviewed for weirdness? There’s a wall of heads, talking trees, the actress that plays Dorthy is somehow ten years younger then her character in the first film, and everyone thinks she’s insane, the nightmare inducing Wheelers, and one of the main characters (the Cowardly Lion) is portrayed by a man in a completely emotionless lion mask. It’s inconceivable, the entire movie is so flipping bizarre and it was made for children by Disney. I love it.

I just became aware of this wonderful film… the first of the ‘Ernest’ movies by Jim Varney, albeit Ernest plays a small role while the entirety of the film is dominated by another Jim Varney character, Dr. Otto Von Schnick-ick-ick-ick. “Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam” features the mad scientist with a hand atop his head using a beam to devalue the concept of money to end the world while taking on different personas to foil his would-be enemies.

I’m just stopping by to suggest the films of Joel Potrykus, particularly Buzzard (2014) and his newest Relaxer (2018). Both films were made on shoestring budgets entirely in the great state of Michigan. The former is about a petty con artist who fears he is on the brink of getting caught, so he makes a Freddy Krueger knife-hand out of a Ninetendo Power-Glove and hides out in his friend’s basement, and the latter is a grotesque chamber piece about a guy who resolves to remain on his couch until he reaches the highest level of PacMan, a mission that spirals into bizarre, apocalyptic-survival-horror territory.

Edwin: The Annunciation is sitting in our “out-of-print holding pen.” We’re waiting to see if some brave soul will re-release it, as the only copies available are either rare and expensive or poor quality VHS bootlegs. The child nudity seems to be an obstacle to it getting a legit release (and old Hungarian films seem to be poorly preserved in general).

OK, so here’s the story. In late 2014 I saw “The One I Love” in theaters and considered covering it, but at that time I had too many other higher priority movies to fit in, so it never got a review. It won’t make the List but it is a weird-ish movie and a pretty good one… but it won’t be seeing a review here.

“Serenity” (2019) – not to be confused with the “Firefly” spinoff of the same name. I haven’t seen it, so obviously I can’t recommend it, but it smells like a potential candidate. So far, the reviewers have no idea what the hell to make of it, which is usually a good sign.

Ugh, you guys are really challenging us now. Rock and Roll Frankenstein can be watched at the link reached by clicking on (director) Brian O’Hara’s name (or search on YouTube). Will we review it? Never say never. As for Serenity, we’ll look for it on DVD… but given the 21% positive Rotten Tomatoes rating, can’t say we’re looking forward to it.

“Perfume: The story of a killer” A Guy who can smell anything, even glass and water, becomes obsessed with preserving the smell of women who seem to have a divine scent that he wants to capture forever. He then goes on a journey to learn how to make perfume out of his murder victims. Super weird, I love it.

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